If we tried to squash all the personalities in the business and all the quirks and all the growth and all the promotions and all the nights out and all the weird fancy dress and all the jokes into this one tiny paragraph on the internet, it would be like trying to edit War and Peace down into 500 words. Ridiculous and impossible and quite frankly a stupid idea.
Plus, a tiny paragraph on the internet doesn’t always cut it because the truth is, you have to chat to the people; see if they’re the kind of people you want to grab a drink with or go out for dinner with. You need to walk around an office to get under the skin of it to see if you want to sit there for eight hours a day.
So instead let’s just say that here, it’s brave and it’s bold and it’s full of opportunity. That at Pod you can build a wonderful career with pretty wonderful people, even if they do have a questionable love for fancy dress. So, let’s leave it at that for now until you come in, have a cuppa, actually meet the gang and realise that maybe, just maybe, this tiny paragraph on the internet was telling the truth.
the pod history
OUR PAST
It all started with four of us around Jon’s kitchen table. We loved supply chain, loved recruitment but were frustrated about the reputation of our industry. So Pod was born. It was a risky move. We were scared but excited. However, it paid off. We won awards four years in a row. Won the best agency to work for. Signed huge clients like Danone, Kraft Heinz, Coty and Amazon. In 2018 we moved into our new home with space to grow.
OUR PRESENT
Comfortable in our new home, finally with room to stretch out, we re-wrote our values, mission statement and brand. We've come up with some big, hairy, audacious goals. Created a sales and marketing function. Had an internal restructure. Launched new products and an internal Jedi scheme. Got excited. Got really excited for chapter two.
OUR FUTURE
We plan to be five times as big as we are now. That means global offices and more people. We’ve promised ourselves never to be big for the sake of it, but instead to be the best supply chain recruitment company in the world. This is, and always has been, about improving our industry. We’re going to be the best agency to work for. We’re going to keep innovating and coming up with wild ideas. We’ll be the ones to lead on diversity & inclusion because we’ve been doing it since those kitchen table days. There’ll be lots of laughter and excitement and fancy dress (it’s just something we do), but our future is about excellence. A razor-sharp commitment to building something so bloody brilliant, everyone (that’s clients, candidates and employees – maybe even your neighbour) wants to be a part of it. We’re building something beautiful.
the code we live by
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individuality
celebrating individuality of everyone we deal with
That means bringing your whole self to work and creating space for everyone else to be their complete, wonderful, quirky and different self.
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openness
committed to openness in everything we do
There's no lying, no cheating, no misleading and definitely no egos around here. We are open with our opinions and honest in everything we do.
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excellence
striving for excellence in everything we deliver
As an ambitious bunch we're always trying to be better than we were yesterday. Excellence is our bench mark and we go up from there.
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creativity
encouraging creativity in every challenge we face
We like wild ideas, audacious plans and we throw creativity at everything we do. Never just accepting things 'the way they are', always getting creative to find better ways of working and living.